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100

Sodium chloride is the chemical name for this mineral commonly used for seasoning food

What is salt?

100

Let's measure the volume of our new potion with the glass column called a graduated this shape

What is a cylinder?

100

In 1986 3 physics winners were honored for designing the electron & scanning tunneling types of these

What is a microscope?

100

It's the animal in the name of the unit equivalent to 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute

What is a horse?

100

"Signs point to yes" that you might know this fortune-telling toy that began as the "Syco-Seer" in the 1940s

What is a Magic 8 Ball?

200

The chemical elements are arrayed according to atomic number on this, a name indicating regular intervals

What is the periodic table?
200

This piece of lab equipment used to develop plate cultures was named for a 1920s German bacteriologist

What is a Petri dish?

200

Max Theiler's 1951 prize was for discoveries that helped combat this "colorful" mosquito-borne tropical disease

What is yellow fever?

200

In an Oscar-winning 2020 documentary, this sea creature was a "Teacher"

What is an octopus?

200

Originally offered in off-white, this product expanded in 1957 to include red, yellow & blue colors all served in airtight cans

What is Play-Doh?

300

Atoms combine to make these larger but still tiny particles, the smallest that make up identifiable substances

What are molecules?

300

This device spins samples rapidly to separate substances based on density 

What is a centrifuge?

300

Aptly, 3 scientists shared the 1995 chemistry prize for work on this atmospheric gas made of 3 oxygen atoms

What is ozone?

300

This Russian physiologist trained many breeds of dogs to reflexively salivate at the sound of noises they associated with food

Who is Pavlov?

300

Percy the Small Engine & James the Red Engine are among this toy's friends on the Island of Sodor

Who is Thomas (the tank engine)?

400

Elements that have unstable nuclei and give off energy as they try to become stable are said to be this

What is radioactive?

400

From the French for "little tube", one of these uses suction to transfer small amounts of liquid

What is a pipette?

400

In 2020, for the first time ever, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by two women, Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier, for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym

What is CRISPR?

400

If you've taken biology, you've probably studied Drosophila, these alliterative winged insects

What are fruit flies?

400

In the 1950s this toy car brand took off when its Elizabeth II coronation coach was a big seller

What is Matchbox?

500

Named for their 2 constituent elements, these compounds such as propane & octane are often used for fuel

What are hydrocarbons?

500

In experiments dealing with very small electric currents or voltages, these are used to increase the signal strength for easier measurement and analysis.

What is an amplifier?

500

Gerhard Herzberg's 1971 chemistry prize citation noted his work on these highly reactive molecules with unpaired electrons

What are (free) radicals?

500

This Nobel-winning physicist came up with a thought experiment involving a cat & whether or not it's alive

Who is Shrodinger?

500

It gets its lift in flight from the airfoil at its outer edge that's known as the Morrison slope

What is a Frisbee?